View Poll Results: Which version do you like?
I like #1
39
81.25%
I like #2
9
18.75%
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Which do you guys like better?
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Which do you guys like better?
Ok folks, one of my buddies took this picture and then edited it. Now I need your help to decide something. I like #1 and he likes #2. So which do you guys like?
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So, help me out folks..which do you like?
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So, help me out folks..which do you like?
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Frankly I don't like either, because of the subject matter. I find those to be ugly cars in any situation. The green background in photo #1 looks better. If it were me I'd dump both in the waste basket.
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I think #2 looks poor compared to #1.
I realize that the post-production work is attempting to get "artistic effect", but it should either commit to the effect or not -- it comes across as half-azzed. What might look good is to completely desaturate the entire pic except for the cars, but this effect is now almost cliched and certainly over-done.
In fact, to be honest, with the easy access to high-quality digital cameras, cheap post-production software, everyone's a "photographer" these days, and compensating for lack of photography skills with a couple of hours of photoshop time. (Not discussing this particular photographer here, just in general).
Call me a purist if you like, but a good photo is a photo that captures something, freezing time, whether it's beauty, ugliness, ordinary, exceptional and rendering it to the viewer, in an effort to convey the sadness, joy, poignance or other emotion of the situation.
So, (IMNSHO) #1 is a good photo, capturing a moment. #2 attempts to manipulate an image in an artistic fashion and comes up short. It fails as a photo because is corrupted the image from its integrity, and it fails as art because it does not substantially add to the original. Just my opinion.
I realize that the post-production work is attempting to get "artistic effect", but it should either commit to the effect or not -- it comes across as half-azzed. What might look good is to completely desaturate the entire pic except for the cars, but this effect is now almost cliched and certainly over-done.
In fact, to be honest, with the easy access to high-quality digital cameras, cheap post-production software, everyone's a "photographer" these days, and compensating for lack of photography skills with a couple of hours of photoshop time. (Not discussing this particular photographer here, just in general).
Call me a purist if you like, but a good photo is a photo that captures something, freezing time, whether it's beauty, ugliness, ordinary, exceptional and rendering it to the viewer, in an effort to convey the sadness, joy, poignance or other emotion of the situation.
So, (IMNSHO) #1 is a good photo, capturing a moment. #2 attempts to manipulate an image in an artistic fashion and comes up short. It fails as a photo because is corrupted the image from its integrity, and it fails as art because it does not substantially add to the original. Just my opinion.